Released on = December 15, 2005, 2:56 am

Press Release Author = ValueNotes Database

Industry = Law

Press Release Summary = In a recently released report "Offshoring Legal Services to
India", ValueNotes estimates that the sector employs around 1,800 professionals and
expects this to grow to 24,000 by 2010. Currently, legal services offshoring in
India generates $61 million in revenues; but this is expected to grow ten times to
reach $605 million by 2010 and cross $1 billion by 2015.

Press Release Body = With the increasing acceptance of India as a preferred
offshoring destination, a large number of non-CRM and non-transaction related
services are being offshored. Among these, a range of higher-value services, like
legal services, requiring not just skill, but "knowledge" are rapidly gaining
traction.

Successful offshoring in the legal services space began as early as 1995, pioneered
by American law firm Bickel and Brewer. Around 2001, GE began offshoring legal
services to its captive center and has been accruing huge savings since then. These
early initiatives have developed into a full-fledged industry with over 50 service
providers, which fall into the following categories:
- Captives of law firms: dedicated centers of international law firms like
Lexadigm, Intellevate and NewGalexy.
- Corporate Captives: in-house legal departments of companies like GE, Cisco,
Oracle, DuPont.
- Third party "niche" vendors: such as IP PRO, Patent Metrix, Pangea3, Mindcrest
and Quislex, focusing on providing only legal services.
- Third party Multiservice BPOs: such as Evalueserve, Datamatics, WNS and Manthan,
offering legal services among others.

Apart from the lure of huge cost savings, the drivers for offshoring to India are
primarily an availability of law graduates and the similarity between legal systems
of India and major English speaking countries like USA and the UK. About 95% of the
business offshored to India is generated by these two countries.

According to Tejal Padwale, analyst at ValueNotes, "Law firms and in-house legal
departments are the largest contributors to the revenues and will dominate the
industry for quite some time".

Adds Arun Jethmalani, CEO of ValueNotes, "Much of the high-end, high-priced work
flows to captives rather than third-party vendors, due to reasons of confidentiality
and security. We expect captives to grow much faster than third-party vendors over
the next few years."


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